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7/30/12

7/28/12

7/26/12

7/25/12

7/20/12

We went to the Renaissance Festival awhile ago, and my favorite part was this nun comedy duo called Hey Nunnie Nunnie. They were the best.

Women as consumables.

6/28/12

Two of the most interesting and vibrant cartoonists working today are Lisa Hanawalt and Jillian Tamaki. I was very excited to do a talk with both of them at the Society of Illustrators in February; if you missed it you can now check out this video of the event. Lisa and Jillian are both very inspiring - examples of their early work are especially fun to see. I am personally pleased that I didn't throw up. I was really, really nervous.

5/23/12

Fan art for Jillian Tamaki's SuperMutant Magic Academy.

5/7/12

4/18/12

I did these illustrations of Tiny Farm our friends Maggie and Lacey, the Tiny Farmers, a few years back. This season they are both going to other far-away farms to intern. I made these drawings into plant tags and tincture labels, respectively, as going-away presents.

3/27/12

I went to New York in February and drew a lot there. Here are some sketches: including a drawing of Lisette Model, a photographer with the Photo League. I learned about her at the The Radical Camera exhibit at The Jewish Museum - in this photo Model is in the middle of a crowded jazz club with a monstrous camera and a huge bag of flash bulbs.

3/7/12

Here's a variant cover I did for issue #5 of the Adventure Time comic book! Adventure Time is just the greatest show, I was so tickled to get to kind of wallow in it for a couple days. Only now I can't stop drawing all my own characters with Pen Ward chins.

2/13/12

I'm excited to be doing a lecture at the Society of Illustrators with two of my favorite cartoonists, Jillian Tamaki and Lisa Hanawalt. It's February 23rd, 6:30 - 8:30. You should come out if you can!

Drew and I just got back from France, where Drew's French publisher, Çá et Lá, was promoting Set to Sea in Angoulême and Paris. I did a lot of sketching: with Drew getting treated like a rock star I knew I had to step up my game.

An important note is that I know absolutely no French. But I felt some small pleasure at writing things in my sketchbook in French that I'd looked up in google translate.

1/8/12

Here's new piece for the New York Times, for Sunday Dialogue: Do We Live in a Less Deadly Time, or Not? Here are some alternate thumbs - the second one in particular I felt really pleased with when I drew it, but when I looked at it the next day I said "What was I thinking?"